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Feb14
on 2017-02-14
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Too Much Information – an online comic
An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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Kind of reminds me of my vacation trip to Cuba.
At the time (possibly still, I haven’t checked) US citizens were banned from travelling to Cuba for any reason. What I found out while IN Cuba is that it isn’t the Cuban government keeping them out, but the US government refusing to allow Americans to go.
“Cuban Missile Crisis” of the 1960s aside (more on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4THHeRJX8 ) The main cause of the more recent than that travel ban seems to be that a particular US battleship (name of which I can’t recall) that was parked off the coast of Cuba (kind of an aggressive move in and of itself) had an explosion onboard and sank. The US accused the Cubans of blowing it up, but the Cubans denied any knowledge of what caused the explosion. Honestly, I have no opinion one way or the other on that, but the Cubans are firm in their claims of innocence.
I tend to think the travel ban was mainly the US governments attempt to keep tourists from coming home with stories like “It’s actually pretty nice there, despite the poverty in some areas, the people are really friendly, and the government pays people to go to college! No Tuition! We should move there and open a thriving business!”
Kinda conflicts with the US political stance against Cuba in general.
Kinda conflicts with the US political stance against any country they don’t like
Actually the ban against going there boils down to a trade embargo put in place around the time Fidel Castro won the revolution and changed the political and social-economic platform of the nation. It isn’t a very useful embargo given that they aren’t particularly dependent on trade with the USA and somehow or another wealthy people manage to get around the embargo to purchase Cuban Cigars and other luxuries as well as traveling there whenever they wish. Some wealthy businesses (that I won’t bother naming) go over there with an eye to profiting by getting in the door first when the government finally takes down the embargo.